Obama has been reading his Lenin. If I remember this correctly, after the Bolshevik coup of 1917, and the implementation of their radical economic policies, by 1921 the Russian economy was in serious trouble. Lenin decided to pull back, or delay some of his policies. This, of course, infuriated the radicals. Lenin replied with his “short term tactics versus long term strategy.” In short, short term, ie., temporary, changes were needed if the Bolsheviks were to REMAIN IN POWER because in order to implement their long term strategy they had to BE IN POWER.

The change is merely temporary in order to shore up his power and reorganize his forces.